FREE WE GOT POWER!: HARDCORE PUNK SCENES FROM 1980S SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PDF David Markey | 306 pages | 10 Jan 2013 | Bazillion Points | 9781935950073 | English | Brooklyn, United States We Got Power!: Hardcore Punk Scenes from ’s Southern California | RECORD COLLECTOR NEWS RSS News Feed. This book is a lot more We Got Power!: Hardcore Punk Scenes from 1980s Southern California just another "Punk Scene" book, this is as real as it gets by two guys, Dave Markey and Jordan Schwartz, the proprietors of We Got Power fanzine based in Los Angeles who were at ground zero in the early 80's. Their job as reporters covering the scene for the fanzine they started put them in many key places to document the scene from an unique prospective that gets you the straight scoop. The book is laced with very candid and sometimes self effacing essays by some of the Punk scenes most noted luminaries that include, Henry Rollins, Pat Fear, Keith Morris, Chuck Dukowski, Mike Watt, Tony Adolescents, Louiche Mayorga, Steve Human and more to give you a special insight into the Punk scene from their point of view. Along with the stories is about photos of the people, the places and the environment that were the backdrop for this growing movement. What makes the book We Got Power!: Hardcore Punk Scenes from 1980s Southern California important is that it will give you a lesson in Los Angeles Punk rock and know what it was like for the kids of this era. This book will take you there with no agenda, no bullshit and without a pretentiousness as found in many other books on the period whose authors waste most of their book talking about how cool they were and how important they think they were. Thankfully authors Dave Markey and Jordan Schwartz open up their archives of photos t hat successfully document these moments in time which were We Got Power!: Hardcore Punk Scenes from 1980s Southern California place for Punks of that era, while readers outside of the scene would find beyond belief. For the younger generation in today's Punk scene, this is one of the more definitive books you can get your hands on to teach you about your history as you turn each page. A real treasure to this book is that all six issues of the We Got Power fanzine are included toward the end of this book. The book can be found at better independent record stores everywhere as well as online here: www. Go HERE to see all the latest record reviews. Send your comments to the editor HERE. Subscribe Unsubscribe. Sound Off! Big Wheel poll question for this week. How many times have you seen your favorite band play? Featured Video. Big Wheel poll question for this week How many times have you seen your favorite band play? Site sponsor. Enter your e-mail address to receive our newsletter and be automatically entered into our drawings! We Got Power!: Hardcore Punk Scenes from s Southern California (Hardcover) | Book Soup Your email address will not be published. This is a unique website which will require a more modern browser to work! Please upgrade today! Description Additional Information Comments Additional Information Weight 4 lbs. Reviews There are no reviews yet. Be the first one! Cancel reply Your email address will not be published. Leave this field empty. Inpunk was over… but byhardcore was born. Never before seen except in crude fanzine form, these detailed and richly narrative photos are now collected to present an intimate portrayal of a uniquely fertile creative moment. He made his first film at the age of 11 and published a neighborhood newspaper at Inhe became involved in the local underground music scene. Jordan Schwartz met David Markey We Got Power!: Hardcore Punk Scenes from 1980s Southern California skateboarding in a flooded Santa Monica parking garage in Jordan contributed in many roles, including that of staff photographer. Jordan facilitated the release of three Black Flag skateboards featuring original artwork by Raymond Pettibon. Go to Top Back to Shop Search. Your cart 0. This is a modern website which will require Javascript to work. Please turn it on! David Markey (Author of We Got Power! Hardcore Punk Scenes From s Southern California) As a teenager coming up in Santa Monica during the early s, armed with a Super-8 Brownie camera, Markey was inspired by everything from John Waters flicks to all manner of pop culture detritus. We Got Power! It accurately reflected and documented a local underground music scene, one fertile and diverse enough to spawn such groups as the Henry Rollins-era Black Flag and its contrarian mirror-image White Flag, led by Pat Fearthe Minutemen, Saccharine Trust, Redd Kross, the Descendents, the Last, Gun Club, Suicidal Tendencies and more besides. More important, We Got Power! All five issues of WGP with the surviving galleys of an unpublished sixth issue have been compiled in a handsomely packaged new book, We Got Power! RCN: I recently read a conversation between John Cale and the actor Willem Dafoe, where at one point they talk about how when they first started in their creative pursuits, they were the youngest in any crowd of people so involved, but that nowadays the people around them involved or interested in such things keep getting younger. David Markey: No one is ever younger than they were the day previously. I suppose it eventually happens, if you are lucky enough to be able to produce work and continue to make new work. I know how crucial it was for me as a kid to have artists to look up to and aspire to, and be influenced by. As far as my own work, TYPB is now over 20 years old too. But at this point, it feels good to be older, with the combined life experience and artistic output behind me. Especially since my projects this year have been all about looking back. Jordan Schwartz: [Dave and I] were both about 16 when we met; I helped him with his films and Xerox zine about things in the neighborhood. All this time later, what kind of emotions, feelings and such does having a proper document of such a heady, important time between quite stylishly laminated covers evoke for you? DM: Thank you. JS: My mind was definitely blown when I first got my hands on the book. The other day, Tony Cadena lead singer of the Adolescents posted a picture of himself online with the cover of the book, and that almost brought me to tears. I still miss D. I guess the most obvious question would be: why did it take so long to decide to put out a We Got Power! One might think that maybe, when TYPB came out that might have been the perfect time to capitalize on your previous work. It needed a little more time to ferment. I think one of the advantages to waiting was the advances made in software for home computers, which is where this project started, with a negative scanner and film cleaner towards the end of Spe-cifically Ed Colver and Glen E. Friedman: they had great shots including all of the darkroom aspects. What inspired you, then, to finally get this into book form? And how did Bazillion Points get involved? As I understand, they had published an anthology of another well-known Punk zine from back then. Ian has a great eye, and was crucial to this project. JS: Thurston was interested in doing the project, but released a bunch We Got Power!: Hardcore Punk Scenes from 1980s Southern California other titles before he was ready to start working on ours. By the time he was ready to release it, though, Ecstatic Peace! Books had ceased operations. DM: So that book was never published, and honestly I think it was for the best, as it was nowhere near as good as this. This project was actually kicking around for eight years before it became this book. And, really, it had everything to do with me taking the bull by the horns, and wrangling an entirely new project from the work. When you and Jordan decided to go for doing the book, how much of an archive of photos etc. DM: We were just looking for good photos, we worked from about images, ended up with just a little over Ian Christe was great as our editor; having an outsider with a great eye for teenage culture really helped the book. Was it the We Got Power!: Hardcore Punk Scenes from 1980s Southern California for you when putting out WGP? DM: You seemed to answer the question raised here. Yes, that was definitely going on. There was a reaction to the way our collective energy was being expressed in the media. But actually those episodes were laughably bad, even back at that time! JS: Kim Pilkington, Dave, and I used to make jokes about being punk rock historians when we were driving out to gigs and now Dave and I are kind of in that role. Back then we did it to do it: We Got Power! Both you and Jordan had worked in audio-visual media, previous to and into your involvement with the local Punk scene and starting up WGP. Do you think that experience informed or affected the way you put together and created the fanzine and vice versa? Some pretty stark graphics and unique ideas and work within those pages. Some of it is hilarious! I have never been one to be so full of myself or my work that I gloat or beam, you know? I kind of get over it and move on.